Endgrain
Subtitle: contemporary wood engraving in North America
By: introductory essays by Patricia Ainslie, Paul Ritscher.
Contributors: Elsted, Crispin, 1947- book designer.; Elsted, Crispin, 1947- compositor.; Elsted, Crispin, 1947- signer.; Elsted, Jan, printer.; Elsted, Jan, signer.; Kilbourn, Rosemary, signer.; Kilbourn, Rosemary, artist.; Ritscher, Paul B., 1955-; Strohhacker, Hans, binder.; Women Printers / Publishers.; Barbarian Press.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Barbarian Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Mission, British Columbia, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Wood-engraving -- 20th century -- United States; Wood-engraving, Canadian -- 20th century; Artists -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: End grain.
Notes: Actual publication delayed until 1995--Cf. Publishers' Foreword.

"Note: There are no folios.  The gatherings containing the engravings are printed on white stock, those containing text, on cream."--Cf. Contents page.

"Endgrain is published by Crispin and Jan Elsted at Barbarian Press in an edition of 430 copies, of which 300 are for sale. Of these, 250 are bound in quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards, and slipcased; 50 are bound in full leather, with patterned endpapers & a signed, tipped-in frontispiece, & contained in a drop-back box ...  The text matter is handset ...  The paper is Zerkall mouldmade white wove and ivory laid.  The bindings were executed by Hans Strohhaker at North-West Bindery Limited, Surrey, B.C. The book was designed and the type set by Crispin Elsted, and the presswork is by Jan Elsted ... "--Colophon.

Tipped in frontispiece signed and numbered by Rosemary Kilbourn.

"Faults escaped" slip tipped in after colophon leaf.

Printed slip "Concerning commissions" inserted.

002-115851503.

WSU Archives copy is bound in leather, boxed, signed and numbered.

WSU Archives copy numbered: "VIII/L"--Cf. colophon and frontispiece.
Table of contents: title: Publishers' Foreword; title: Patricia Ainslie: Wood Engraving in Canada; title: CANADA: The Engravings; title: Paul B. Ritscher: Wood Engraving in the United States; title: THE UNITED STATES: The Engravings; title: Biographical notes: Canada; The United States; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Jan Elsted: Printer's Note; title: Colophon.